Amec Foster Wheeler awarded multiple Algerian refinery contracts
Published by Angharad Lock,
Digital Assistant Editor
Hydrocarbon Engineering,
Amec Foster Wheeler has reported that it has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Sonatrach SPA for three new refineries located in Biskra, Tiaret and Hassi Messaoud, Algeria.
The three refineries will each have a capacity of 5 million tpy of Algerian crude oil and contain facilities for atmospheric distillation, Liquefied Petroleum Gas separation, hydrocrackers, desulphurisation, bitumen production, utilities, blending, effluents treatment, control room and laboratories. The Biskra site will also comprise lubrication oil facilities.
Amec Foster Wheeler will also support Sonatrach in the selection of technology licensors for all three refineries.
Roberto Penno, Amec Foster Wheeler’s Group President for Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Southern Europe, said: “Sonatrach is a long-term customer of Amec Foster Wheeler and this is a strategically important project for the Algerian Oil & Gas industry. We will apply our significant global refinery expertise to enable maximum efficiency of these three new refineries.”
Amec Foster Wheeler’s scope of work is expected to be competed by 3Q17.
Edited from press release by Angharad Lock
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/refining/08032016/amec-foster-wheeler-receives-refinery-contracts-2189/
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